Sorry that I'm not a fluent english speaking, I will try to explain as well as I'll can.

I'm not really the best programmer in PHP, I know it enough for the basics and to modify lightly an existing application, so it is not easy for me to integrate b2evo in my existing sites.

The problem I run in is that there is too much functionnalities implemented in the header/footer sections that are driven with functions that are, for some, really complex. This is a good thing because it make b2evo a very robust application but not easy to adjust. My own PHP sites are build in the same way, with a header & footer to set the common design of all pages, and a core (body part) that contains the specific part of each page.

For example, this experimental site, http://estran.anime.om-h.net/site/ where the applications "guestbook" and "calendar" are third-pary apps but very easy to integrate. The "notes" link jumps to a b2evo sub-site, but as it appears I couldn't adapt it to keep the same look than the global site.

The idea is to have a b2evo version, or a b2evo skin, where the header / footer part are empty or very light, and the dashboard & blogs links bars come to the top of the core part, under the header. This is only for the public part of the site, not for the dashboard part.